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Category: Last Word By Sarita Sarvate
For every human life comes a moment when mortality stares it in the face. For me it came last autumn, when I went to my hometown of Nagpur. My last visit had been three years before, when I had gone to tend to my dying mother. Now I was ...
A Memoirist’s Dilemma
In 1959, Margaret Sanger, the American pioneer of the birth control movement and the founder of Planned Parenthood, urged President Eisenhower to resist pressure from the “Roman Catholic hierarchy” to reject foreign aid programs supporting contraceptives. She went so far as to publish a letter to the editor of ...
Does religion always face the danger of being commercialized?
Why can't Indians keep their public toilets clean?
How do Indian Americans really feel about Occupy Wall Street?
To be born and to die in the same place, surrounded by your family, is a privilege that many no longer have.
In this age of globalization, when India thrives on foreign business, and celebrity culture dominates its news media, Anna Hazare evokes a bygone era of austerity, nationalism, and self-reliance. With his penchant for fasting and his traditional garb, Hazare evokes comparisons with Gandhi. But the irony is that Gandhi ...
Sane Guruji left his mark on literature for children by not dumbing down his stories.
Communing with the red rocks of Utah
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